A sermon preached on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John…A sermon preach'd on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John…

THAT which though some Vent, and others admire as Wit, even Paganism it self has Condemned as Foolishness. Your Lordship is in no more Danger to be altered hereby from your chosen Course, than a Man in his Health and Senses, by Satyrs against Eating and Drinking.

THAT which though some Vent, and others admire as Wit, even Paganism it self has Condemn'd as Foolishness. Your Lordship is in no more Danger to be alter'd hereby from your chosen Course, than a Man in his Health and Senses, by Satyrs against Eating and Drinking.

I Reckon Your Lordship is so much taken up with the great Things of Religion, as to be less taken with the Adventitious Things Men have Thought fit to affix to it. I do not more Emulate Your Lordship in any Thing, than a Disdain of Bigotry; nor more Honour any thing I Discern in You than True Catholicism.

AND Recounting what Things and Persons do truly belong to a Church, I Believe Your Lordship is not professedly of a Larger Church, as Counting it too Large for You but too narrow, and that You affect ⟨image 4⟩not to be of a Self-distinguished Party. Nor, besides the Opportunity of avowing the Just Honour, and Obligations I have to Your Lordship, and Your Noble Consort, with my Sincere Concern for Your Hopeful and Numerous Off-spring, did any Thing more Invite this Address to Your Lordship, than the agreeableness of such Your Sentiments to the Mind and Spirit of

AND Recounting what Things and Persons do truly belong to a Church, I Believe Your Lordship is not professedly of a Larger Church, as Counting it too Large for You but too narrow, and that You affect ⟨image 4⟩